The Trump administration mobilized troops to Los Angeles in response to anti-ICE protests earlier this month

The Defense Department has mobilized 700 troops to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Florida, Louisiana and Texas.

These troops will “not participate in law enforcement activities” but will “provide logistical support, and conduct administrative and clerical functions,” according to Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell. The troops were deployed last week, Parnell said.

The three states have seen several large-scale ICE raids since Trump took office in January and implemented his hardline anti-immigration agenda, promising to carry out the “largest deportation operation in American history.”

  • Critical_Thinker@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m really wondering what the real reason is behind the anti-immigrant actions. Sure, racism is part of it, but there has to be a money aspect for somebody because of all the extra business.

    This is generating a ton of jobs in louisiana, which is basically the last slave state as-is with how their prisons are run anyway.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      The private prison executives had a leaked meeting where they celebrate Trump’s victory.

      Fun fact, the USA still practices slavery by making prisoners exempt from the 13th Amendment which in all other cases abolished slavery. A lot of industry is constructed by convicts for cheap cheap.